Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Pierre-Gilles de Gennes:

What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.

Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes